[f. EWER1 or EWER-Y + -ER1.] A servant who supplied guests, etc., at table with water to wash their hands.
c. 1450. MS. Sloane 1986. 40. The ewerer [v.r. euwer] schal hele his lordes borde With dowbull napere at on bare worde.
1851. Turner, Dom. Archit., III. iii. 79. When the ewerer brought water.
1858. G. Gilfillan, Mem., in Wyatt’s Poet. Wks., p. vii. At Anne Boleyn’s marriage in July 1533 … Wyatt officiated as ewerer, in room of his father.
